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Ropar, December 27
Three persons, including a woman died in a road accident near Ropar today evening while nine others were seriously injured.

The victims have been identified as Bhupinder Kaur, Surmukh Singh and Jagir Kaur. The injured were rushed to the Civil Hospital.

Inspector Manvir Singh Bajwa said an Innova car coming, from Ludhiana collided head on with a three-wheeler along the Sirhind Canal. Two of the victims died in the on the spot while another seriously injured died at the local Civil Hospital.

The police has registered a case under Sections 279, 304A,337,338 and 427.

Chandigarh, December 27
The UT police today arrested a person for allegedly kidnapping his daughter and her husband from Maloya and keeping the two in confinement for the past three days.

The police arrested Dhani Ram, a resident of Yamunanagar, in the case and rescued his son-in-law, who had eloped and married his daughter Shalu and had also obtained protection from the Punjab and Haryana High Court last month. Shalu is yet to be recovered. The police claimed the girl was in her maternal house in Rajoli village in Ambala district. The couple was abducted from near their rented accommodation on December 24.

A Yamunanagar resident had complained to the police that his brother Gurjit and his wife Shalu, both 25, were kidnapped from near Maloya by the girl’s father.

A police party then went to the Yamunanagar residence of the girl where her father Dhani Ram misled the police and said they were not aware of the whereabouts of their daughter and her husband.

Investigations by the police revealed that Gurjit and Shalu had married in 2010 against the wishes of their parents. Shalu’s parents had also got a case of kidnapping registered against the groom.

The girl’s father then arranged the marriage of his daughter with someone else and the wedding was scheduled to be held on December 10.

Mohali, December 27
As many as 19 persons have been booked by the police on the charges of theft and illegal mining in the Mohali sub-division.

Out of the 19 persons, against whom cases have been registered so far, 15 have been arrested the police. Cases under Section 379 of the IPC and 4(1) of the Mining and Minerals Act, 1957, have been registered against them in this regard.

According to reports, while most of the suspects were allegedly resorting to illegal mining of sand from a choe, some of them were lifting earth from agricultural fields in violation of the law. Vehicles carrying sand and earth have also been impounded.

In one case, seven vehicles carrying 8.40 lakh sq ft of sand were impounded and a case was registered against six persons, all hailing from different parts of Haryana. All of them were arrested on December 22.

In another case, five persons were arrested on charges of theft and illegal mining on December 22 and five vehicles were impounded. While three of the persons were from the Rajpura area, two again were from Haryana. Their vehicles were found carrying 24,000 sq ft of loose earth and 24,000 sq ft of sand.

It is learnt that during a checking by Lakhmir Singh, SDM, Mohali, it was found that loose earth was being sold at Rs 300 per sq ft by some persons and large-scale digging was going on in some villages. Digging at a depth of almost 10-ft had allegedly been done in parts of Paton village, harming the topography of the area. Hi-tech machines, which could fill up a truck in minutes, were being used to remove earth.

While some of the cases were registered by the police, the others were done on the directions of Lakhmir Singh.

Strict action is being initiated against those indulging in illegal mining after the state government gave the powers of mining officers to SDMs concerned in the first week of December.

Mohali, December 27
In case of the bashing up of Harpreet Singh, an employee of DELL, on Tuesday night by some youngsters, the Mohali police believed the involvement of a relative of an Akali leader.

“During investigations, we have found that the Sunny car bearing registration number PB65R-8600 (in which the accused were said to have come) belonged to Jodhveer Singh Shergill. The vehicle is in his (Jodhveer) wife’s, Gurparkash Kaur, name. Now, we are investigating the role of Jodhveer Singh Shergill in the case,” said the police.

In his complaint, Harpreet Singh alleged that a group of five-six persons, who came in a Sunny car, thrashed him with hockey sticks, while brandishing a pistol at him.

“My head was knocked by the pistol by one of the attackers,” said Harpreet, who had nine stitches on his head at the Civil Hospital, Phase 6, that night.

Meanwhile, Jodhveer, a nephew of Akali leader Arjun Singh Shergill, held a press conference in this connection alleging that he was innocent and the police was trying to drag his name in the case wrongly.

Jodhveer said Harpreet, along with his friends, was consuming alcohol in front of the gurdwara in Phase 5.

“He, along with his friends, ensued fight when he was asked to leave the place,” alleged Jodhveer, adding that someone had broken the windowpane of his car, which was parked in front of the gurdwara.

The police has registered a case under Sections 342, 323 of the IPC and Sections 25, 54, 59 of the Arms Act against Harvinder Singh, alias Minto, a resident of Phase 7, Lucky and an unidentified person in this regard at the Phase 1 Police Station.

The police claimed that a case was already registered against Jodhveer Singh at the Phase 1 Police Station.

“Raids are on nab the accused,” said the police.

Chandigarh, December 27
In a sheer mockery of sports, the UT Education Department has shifted the camp of city’s cricket team, boys’ (U-14), to a school which has no cricket pitch from a well equipped field of the Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 32.

According to sources, now from Saupin School, Sector 32, the camp has been shifted to Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 19.

Adding more to the misery, the department handed over the camp to a PT teacher after the appointed coach refused to accompany the team, citing personal reasons. Notably, the same coach had refused to head the cricket team, girls’ (U-19), after attending the camp for initial days.

The boys’ camp was earlier handed over to cricket coach Nagesh Gupta but later it was given to Deepak Lothia.

“The camp was shifted there but only for net practice. The appointed coach refused to accompany the team to the match venue, so we have appointed other person to accompany the team,” said Amarjeet Singh, sports organisers, UT Education department.

The camp was earlier handed over to cricket coach Nagesh Gupta and the team was undergoing regular practice sessions at the cricket ground of Sector 32. The team is scheduled to represent the city in the upcoming 58th edition of School National Games’ Cricket Competition to be held in Delhi from January 2 to 8.

“Due to some personal reason, I have refused to accompany the team but the officials could have continued the camp at the ground of government school, Sector 32. To maintain the team’s combination, there is no need to shift the base of the camp. The department has not informed me anything regarding this. If I am not accompanying that doesn’t mean, I cannot provide my services, to the young players,” said Nagesh.

On other hand, Deepak Lothia, PT teacher, said: “The camp is shifted only for net practice due to non-availability of the turf at the GMSSS 32.” Notably, Lothia’s nephew is the member of same team and his name has been mentioned as third on the final 16-member list.

“We are having the best of turfs and the camp was shifted just to make the entire team familiar with the turf. For running and other purposes, the team will move to GMSSS-32,”said Deepak. 

Chandigarh, December 27
Arshalan Naqvi beat Aneeth Kumar by 21-18 and 21-19, to move further in the boys (U-17) category during the ongoing Smt Krishna Khaitan All-India Badminton Tournament, held here today.

In other matches of the same category, Lakshya Sen defeated Saneem Riaz at 21-12, 21-11 while Rishabh Sahdev bt Akendra Darji at 21-17, 21-17.

Results: Kiran bt Kelvin 21-15, 21-3; Siril A bt Raghunad 21-9, 21-8; Sankeerth BR bt Aman 21-15, 21-16; Ravi bt Ankit 21-12, 21-3; Sumit bt Dhanush S 21-6 21-16; Daniel bt Dhruv 21-11, 21-19; Raman bt Adheip 21-18; 21-10; Gopalakrishna D bt Uday 21-10, 21-10; Talar bt Aish 21-9, 21-12; Girls (U-17)-Jamuna R bt Maitreyee 21-14, 21-18; Sanya bt Sudha D 22-20, 21-18; Kanika bt Ruby 18-21, 21-19, 21-8; Boys double (U-17)-Vighnesh and Gangadhara bt Febin and Dhanush VM 21-12, 21-12.

Chandigarh, December 27
In the ongoing 42nd SN Vohra All-India Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament, the team of Punjab National Bank defeated Northern Railway by 4-2. 

For the winning side, Jatinder, Shivdeep Singh, Ajitesh Roy and Dahandeep scored a brace each for opponents, Jasjeet Sinh and Raju. 

Chandigarh, December 27
The Ropar cricket team defeated the Chandigarh Cricket Academy by 43 runs during the ongoing Chandigarh Cricket Tournament for boys (U-12) being held here today. 

Batting first, the winning side posted a total of 136 runs in 35 overs with Jashan scoring 47 runs while Sehaj contributed 21 off 34.